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Top 10 Drama and Comedy Finalists Announced

July 4th 2008 01:48
The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences released their top 10 contenders for this year’s Emmy Awards. Read on to find out who made the cut...


The lists below represent the 60th Primetime Emmy® Awards’ top ten vote-getters for outstanding drama series and outstanding comedy series, as voted on by the entire Television Academy.


Step two in the process will be the Blue Ribbon Panel screenings, which will be conducted throughout this weekend of June 28-29.

The results of those panels, who will watch and judge the work of each finalist, represent 50 percent of the vote. Both results will be averaged together to come up with our five nominees in each category.

Those nominees will be announced by the Television Academy at 5:40 a.m. on Thursday, July 17.

Panel participants have been confirmed and the panels are currently closed.

The accounting firm of Ernst & Young oversees tabulation of Primetime Emmy® nominations.

Top 10 Comedy Series Finalists

Curb Your Enthusiasm
Entourage
Family Guy
Flight of the Conchords
The Office
Pushing Daisies
30 Rock
Two and a Half Men
Ugly Betty
Weeds


Top 10 Drama Series Finalists

Boston Legal
Damages
Dexter
Friday Night Lights
Grey’s Anatomy
House
Lost
Mad Men

The Tudors
The Wire

*Source: The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
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Pushing Daisies and Chuck Fans Click here!

March 30th 2008 03:12

Video highlights from this year's Paley Fest for Pushing Daisies and Chuck can be found here and here respectively!


Looks like both casts get along very well!
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Pushing Daisies

November 15th 2007 03:07

Chuck wakes up and accidentally falls on Ned and *gasp* doesn’t die. Suddenly Chuck strips her skin and becomes Olive and Ned wakes up. He feels bad about the fact that Olive kissed him when he saved her life and Emerson finds this very funny. Chuck asks Olive if his lips were soft and Olive realizes that Chuck and Ned never touch. When she asks Chuck if it’s because of a deadly food allergy, Chuck says it is. Olive thinks that’s the saddest thing she’s ever heard.

Meanwhile, a dog breeder gets stabbed and Chuck, Ned, and Emerson go to ask him who killed him. He asks them if they’re angels, and if they are if they would surround his dog Bubblegum in white light and positive energy. As it turns out, he was poisoned, dumped his coffee, slipped in it, and landed many times on a rather sharp designer dog brush on his desk. His wife gave him the coffee. Unfortunately, he has 4 wives.


Since there are four wives and four of them, Ned, Chuck, Emerson, Olive, take turns taking Digby to each of the dog-related businesses the wives own. Ned goes to the dog psychiatrist and tells her Digby’s name is Ned. He ends up talking about his own dreams.

Each wife says she gave her husband his morning coffee. All four them show up at the pie-makers bakery saying they heard there was a note. The wife Chuck went to visit turns out to be the one who uses almond flavored coffee cream creamer in her coffee. When Ned woke up the dead husband, he recalled tasting almonds before he died. Chuck refuses to believe that a woman who breeds dogs for blind kids can’t possibly be a killer.

They go to visit the forth wife in jail and she says she believe a rival dog breeder named Snuffy killed her husband. Snuffy says he bought Bubblegum and has now decided he’s going to clone her remains for his own business.

Emerson has a dream that Bubblegum is really alive and then fears that maybe he’s actually falling for Simone, the wife who owns the obedience center. He asks her why Bubblegum’s collar moves every time he visits and Simone admits to having Bubblegum. But she didn’t kill Harold. She then attacks Emerson and ties him up with a dog toy taped in his mouth. She accuses him of being Snuffy’s spy. Bubblegum is in fact alive after all.

Emerson busts out of the restrains and runs back to the pie shop. “My wife is gonna kill Snuffy! Well, not my wife, but—you know what I mean.” They rush to Snuffy’s but find him dead in his chair. They take him to the church where Harold’s funeral is taking place where Emerson tells Chuck to prop him up because “he looks like a wino on New Years!”

On Emerson’s mark, Ned touches Snuffy and Hillary, Harold’s first wife nearly has a heart attack, shouting, “You’re supposed to be dead!” She dashes out of the church and Digby and Ned chase after her.

As it turns out, Hillary found out about her husband’s plans with Snuffy. Refusing to let Bubblegum share in the same cursed existence as she did, Hillary refused to let her husband clone her baby. When she found out Snuffy could clone Bubblegum from his ashes, Hillary killed Snuffy.

Ned tells Chuck that regardless of what she might think, Chuck is the only one for him.

Quotes of the week:

Announcer: Wondering why her kiss with Ned went unmentioned, Olive attempted to mention the unmentionable kiss.

~*~*~

Chuck: What do you need to be happy?

Ned: You.

~*~*~

In WGA strike related news:

According to TV Guide's Michael Ausiello, ABC's Pushing Daisies has joined the roster of shows preparing for an early season ender as a result of the strike. Show creator Bryan Fuller explained that the series' ninth episode, the last for which a script is written, can be used as a season finale should the strike bleed into the new year and beyond.
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October 18th 2007 03:32

I’ve been watching this show since the first episode, and I love the storybook/semi-warped fairtytaleness of it all. There’s a heightened reality to everything from the voice-overs to the costumes, the subject matter, and set decorations. In Pushing Daisies, the main character, Ned, is a pie maker who found out at a young age that if he touched a dead thing, he could bring it back to life.

But his special powers don’t come without a price. For one thing, if he touches the person (or animal) again, it automatically dies forever. And then there’s the whole, if he keeps a dead person alive again for more than a minute, someone else has to die…A fact he unfortunately found out when he brought his own mother back from the dead one day and accidentally killed his childhood sweetheart, Charlotte “Chuck” Charles’s dad. And he’s felt guilty ever since.

It’s an interesting premise carried out in a very sweet, funny way. The show comes from the creators of Men in Black, so think that kind of action-packed goofiness. Ned teams up with a private investigator named Emerson Cod-the only person who knows Ned’s secret other than his dog Digby (who was Ned’s original subject for bringing back to life)-in a sort of pseudo business. An award is offered to find out how someone died, they find the dead person, Ned touches them, asks how they died, touches them again, and then they collect the award. Easier said than done right?

In the first episode, Ned brings back Chuck after seeing her suspicious death on the news. She was killed on a cruise ship by someone wanting the all-gold monkey figurines she didn’t really know she had. He hadn’t meant to keep her alive, but couldn’t help it after he started talking to her, and realized he still loved her. Now Chuck joins the team, Emerson isn’t happy, and Ned has to make sure he doesn’t accidentally touch Chuck, or she’s dead. Again.

Ned installs a plexiglass separator between the front seats of his car so Chuck can sit in front-complete with a rubber glove hole for “steering emergencies”, and they can only kiss if there’s a layer of saran wrap between them. Ned also has to pet Digby with one of those grabber things. Awww! Taking all this into consideration, I’m still not sure how Ned was able to kiss Chuck when they were little, or how he was able to touch Chuck’s aunt’s hand later on without killing her...hmmm.

Anyway, Pushing Daisies is one of those shows you just have to watch to understand its true charm. I do recommend checking it out though, its not like anything else I’ve seen in a while. It’s part detective show, part, fairy tale, and part musical, with a bunch of comedy and home baked pies thrown in for flavor.

Mmmm, now you must excuse me. I have to go find some pie.
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